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SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday October 4, 2011 @06:37AM from the keep-them-tapes-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Government contractor SAIC just can't seem to get a break. Still fresh off of the Citytime scandal, they've now had a data breach in which backup tapes holding 4.9 million personal health records were stolen from an employee's car. To add insult to injury, evidently the tapes were not encrypted either: 'Tricare did not indicate whether SAIC encrypted the information on the stolen tapes, but Raley said, "It's very hard to encrypt a backup tape."'"

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Re:My professional opinion by mlts · 2011-10-04 07:23 · Score: 4, Insightful

Nail. Head. Hit.
"special hardware and software" gets me...
A LTO-5 drive and access to GNU tar or cpio is an alt-tab away for a number of IT people.